Dear colleagues,
Please consider contributing to our panel at the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, On Time (Helsinki, August 29-30, 2019):
Panel Title
Out of place, out of time: Rethinking liminality and stuckedness in experiences of migration
Convenors
Francesca Morra (Oxford Brookes University)
Francesca Meloni (Northumbria University)
Abstract
Many scholars in anthropology and other disciplines have emphasized how migrants’ lives have increasingly shifted from experiences of mobility to conditions of immobility (Carling, 2002; Salazar & Smart, 2011). Migration policies, deportability and racial discrimination can confine migrants in an existential and temporal condition of indefinite waiting, liminality and stuckedness (Hage, 2009; Willen, 2007). Scholars have often described this liminal condition as detrimental to one’s sense of security and wellbeing, or as a failure to become ‘incorporated’ and to fully belong (Gonzales, Suárez-Orozco, & Dedios-Sanguineti, 2013; Sommers, 2012). In this panel, we seek to conceptualize and rethink the ways in which different temporal breaks and continuities affect migrants’ experiences of mobility and immobility, belonging and intimacy, in relation to the multiple factors and constraints shaping migrants’ possibilities of making a viable life. We particularly seek papers that draw on ethnographic engagements exploring migrants’ experiences of time that are in contrast, or misaligned, with the linear and progressive temporality of neoliberal societies – that is, the expected trajectories towards citizenship, social incorporation, and independence. For instance, how do migrants themselves understand dissonant experiences of time and emplacement? How do these understandings shape different experiences of im/mobility and imaginations of possible futures? What kinds of temporalities are possible, or are hindered, in migration? And how are these influenced by policies, and neoliberal imaginations of a ‘good life’?
Please send a short abstract of your contribution (max 250 words) to Francesca Morra ( [log in to unmask] ) and Francesca Meloni ( [log in to unmask] ) by 1st April 2019.
For more information on the conference, please see http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/events/anthropology-conference-2019/ and for the list of panels and the call for papers, go to http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Call-for-papers.pdf .
Best wishes,
Francesca
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Francesca Meloni, PhD
Lecturer
Department of Social Work, Northumbria University
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